A 3 VOLUME COLLECTION OF THE  MACABRE TALES OF BASIL COPPER 
Edited and with an Introduction from Stephen Jones

A STEPHEN JONES MASTERS OF HORROR SERIES

PUBLICATION DATE  SEPTEMBER 2023

Collected together for the first time in three paperback volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper. Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as the legendary Pan Book of Horror Stories series, rare and collectible compilations edited by Peter Haining and August Derleth, and the author’s own highly-prized books from Arkham House, these three extensive volumes contain more than four decades’ worth of weird fiction from one of the genre’s most renowned practitioners.

DARKNESS, MIST & SHADOW #1
COVER ART  Stephen E. Fabian
INTERIOR ART  Les Edwards, Gary Gianni and Allen Koszowski
PAGES  459

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this initial volume you will find such classics of the macabre as the author’s first professionally published short story, ‘The Spider’, along with memorable tales like “Camera Obscura’ (adapted by Rod Serling for the TV series Night Gallery), ‘The Janissaries of Emillion’, ‘The Academy of Pain’, ‘Amber Print’ and ‘The Recompensing of Albano Pizar’, which was dramatised by BBC Radio 4.

DARKNESS, MIST & SHADOW #2

COVER ART  Stephen E. Fabian
INTERIOR ART  Dave Carson and Bob Eggleton
PAGES  454

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this second volume you will find such classics of the macabre as ‘The Flabby Men’, the author’s terrifying Cthulhu Mythos novella ‘Shaft Number 247’, ‘The Candle in the Skull’ (read over Hallowe’en on BBC Radio 4), the acclaimed Lovecraftian novella ‘Beyond the Reef’ and ‘Bright Blades Gleaming’.

With a critical Introduction by broadcaster Kim Newman, Volume Two of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Dave Carson and Bob Eggleton, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.

COVER ART  Stephen E. Fabian
INTERIOR ART  Randy Broecker, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton and Allen Koszowski
PAGES  434

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this third volume you will find such classics of the macabre as ‘When Greek Meets Greek’, ‘Ill Met by Daylight’, ‘There Lies the Danger . . .’ and the author’s preferred version of his final published short story, ‘Voices in the Water’.